OSWord_ReadLine

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 2 Nov 2001, in message <200111021011.KAA05610 at inputplus.demon.co.uk>,
Ralph Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > OSWord_ReadLine has always been deprecated in RISC OS, but supported
> > by OSLib. Given that its restrictions make it potentially dangerous
> > in use, I now propose to make it obsolete. 
> > 
> > Similarly, OSWord_ReadGCol was made obsolete in PRM5a. I propose to
> > do similar in OSLib.
> > 
> > Do any users have a problem with either of these changes?

To my embarrassment, I realise that, in another thread, I have just argued
myself out of doing this, as it would break binary compatibility. So, I'll
leave 'em in :-)

> 
> With a view to DefMod generating code for riscose could they be left in
> but a `deprecated' flag added to the grammar and DefMod made to skip
> them for C library generation?
> 
> Only riscose would like to implement those one day.
> 
> If you think that's a valid approach I'm happy to supply a patch.
> 
Follow-up to OSLib-team.

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